Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a tempest in the teapot, Remind me of the endless digital vs. film debates :-) Ted, chances are your images are still there, really. Take your PC or Mac to some outfit - in US, we have something called Geek Squad that works inside Best Buy and they are pretty good. Find the equivalence in Canada and they should be able to straighten you up. Should not cost more than half an hour to an hour so for ~$50, you will probably get all your images back. Adam raised a good point, the adjustment brush the quick masking is amazing. It's not good enough for the fine detail work that cut out a figure from the background, but for dodging and burning and other local adjustments, it's a dream. And it's not about saving hard drive space. It's about ease of changing your minds or wanting to try a different technique. For example, lets say you slap a gradient darkness adjustment to tone down the sky on a landscape. Then lets say you do other adjustments, changing tonal balance, clarity etc. and then you say, "hmmm... may be that gradient is a bit too strong." In photoshop, if you have created a layer then you go adjust the layer. In LR, you just select the gradient handle and re-adjust it to fit. Sure Photoshop has quick mask too, but everything becomes multiple steps in PSD: create a layer so you can re-adjust later, quick mask, then apply whatever you need to do. Create another layer for another effect, etc. etc. In LR. it's click on adjustment brush, brush, brush, brush. adjust what you want to change to taste and you can always re-adjust later. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>